He drew a calendar on his pad of paper to start counting down the days.

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This is going to be the longest one yet, but I'm counting down the days until we're together again.

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With the fans counting down the days to the African Cup of Nations kick off on 20 January 2008, football fever is clearly in the air.

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Whether we were counting down the days to my graduation or sharing our engagement (yes, as in, proposal) video with over 7, 000 people across our social media networks, we try to just be sincere, humans who happen to have a food truck.

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There's already an on-screen logo counting down the days to the start on E4, which will be streaming live coverage of goings-on in the Big Brother house from 2130-2245 each evening, and again through the night - and whose ratings and share of audience rise dramatically whenever Big Brother is on.

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